(Morning Star News) – Few people realize that we are today living through the largest persecution of Christians in history, worse even than the famous attacks under ancient Roman emperors like Diocletian and Nero. Estimates of the numbers of Christians under assault range from 100 million to 200 million. According to one estimate, a Christian […]
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Christian Tragedy in the Muslim World
An antidote to the West's dysfunctional spin on Islam.
July 30, 2013 By -
Christian Students in Eritrea Punished for their Faith
Military beats them, threatens to keep them from attending university.
July 25, 2013 By -
LOS ANGELES (Morning Star News) – Eritrean authorities are punishing 39 high school students for their Christian faith, excluding them from a graduation ceremony and subjecting them to beatings and hard labor, according to Christian support organization Open Doors. After completing a four-month military training required in Eritrea, the students, including 11 girls, have been arrested […]
Two Christians Wounded in Church Attack in Iraq; another Killed in Store Bombing
Gunmen surprise sleeping, off-duty church security guards in rest area.
June 28, 2013 By -
CAIRO, Egypt (Morning Star News) – Authorities are investigating an attack by gunmen at a church in Baghdad, Iraq this week that wounded two Christian guards, one seriously, according to the parish priest. The Rev. Martin David of St. Mary’s Assyrian Catholic Church told Morning Star News that on Tuesday (June 25) at 2 a.m. […]
Christians Deported from Morocco Fight to be Reunited with Orphans
Court rules against Village of Hope, reversing ruling that it was a legal entity.
May 31, 2013 By -
CAIRO, Egypt (Morning Star News) – Expatriate Christians who ran an orphanage in Morocco until they were deported on charges of proselytism said yesterday they will take their fight to be reunited with the children to the Supreme Court if necessary. An appellate court earlier this month delivered a verbal ruling in favor of the Moroccan […]
Christians in Morocco Fear Fatwa Portends Harsher Treatment
Converts unsettled by call for execution of those who leave Islam.
May 4, 2013 By -
CAIRO, Egypt (Morning Star News) – A Moroccan fatwa calling for the execution of those who leave Islam has left many Christian converts in turmoil. There is still much debate over how the fatwa, which only recently came to light after the government’s top authority on Islam issued it last year, could change laws in Morocco. […]
Sudan Intensifies Arrests, Deportations of Christians
Interrogations include threat to bury ministry group members alive.
April 30, 2013 By -
JUBA, South Sudan, April 30, 2013 (Morning Star News) – Sudan has stepped up its targeting of Christians for deportation, with interrogation including threats to bury them alive, sources said. Besides the deportation to South Sudan of the secretary general of the Sudan Catholic Bishops’ Conference on April 12, other Christians have been targeted in […]
Beyond Boko Haram: The Lethal Persecution of Nigeria’s Christians
The history of hostility goes deep into the social fabric.
April 16, 2013 By -
(Morning Star News) – The publicly reported Christian casualties in Nigeria last year were greater than the Christian casualties of Pakistan, Syria, Kenya and Egypt combined. In fact, Nigeria alone accounted for almost 70 percent of Christians killed globally. This makes Nigeria the most lethal country for Christians by a huge margin. While media reports […]
Bomber of Messianic Jewish Family in Israel Imprisoned
Explosive planted in Purim gift basket nearly killed adolescent.
April 14, 2013 By -
CAIRO, Egypt (Morning Star News) – After five years of waiting for justice, a Messianic Jewish pastor in Israel says he is satisfied with the sentence given to an ultra-Orthodox, Jewish nationalist who bombed his home and almost killed his son. U.S. émigré Jack (Yakov) Teitel, 40, was sentenced on Tuesday (April 9) to two life […]
Iraq: When the Lights Go Off and the Dust Settles
You may not hear much about it, but ethno-religious cleansing in Iraq has not ceased.
March 25, 2013 By -
(Morning Star News) – Men running, women pleading for God’s mercy, children screaming out of fear, older women trapped under rubble and thick dust rising in the air. This has been a recurring scene in Iraqi cities for close to a decade. Since June 26, 2004, Assyrian (also known as Chaldean and Syriac) churches have […]
Estranged Christian Father Struggles in Harsher, Hard-line Sudan
Convert from Islam whose wife divorced him can now visit children – with caution.
February 26, 2013 By -
KHARTOUM, Sudan (Morning Star News) – Mohammed Khidir Khalil Hassan, a Sudanese convert from Islam, has to be careful what songs he sings to his sons. Nearly a year ago, after his wife left him and Christianity behind, a Sudanese court had ruled that as a convert from Islam he was forbidden to see his […]